Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Melichoir]

Ok, so whats the problem? Im having a hardtime figuring this out cause heres the info Ive heard:

1) 1 House 'type' (private/FC) per world PER ACCOUNT (so no alts). Individuals may only own 1 private and 1 FC house.
2) Theyll be adding around 1400 new plots per server essentially.
3) FCs will be allowed to purchase first, then individual purchases will open up.
4) New rules will apply going forward.

Depending your server, are people anticipating 1400 FCs to spring up and buy houses? 1400 nwe houses popping up is a helluva lot. Is it goign to be all in Shirogane? No. So are people not going to get teh 'exact' house they want? Yes. Thats expected. These changes enable FCs to get housing first, THEN individuals, which is something I hvae no problem with. FCs should get the pick of the litter when it comes to Housing, broadly speaking. Then itll become open to everyone. And chances are good that theyll say "Hey, on So-and-So date, individual purchases for housing will go out!" So its not going to be a random unannounced time most likely.

So assuming that 400 houses get bought up for FCs, that leaves a thousand open houses. Now depending on your realm size, thats a huge deal. Realm average ACTIVE player base varies between 6k-13k, depending where you look. So an extra 1000 houses can be quite a lot depending the server. Even at its worst, 13k, another 1000 houses for individuals is gonna be 7% of the active server population. At its best, its near 15%.

"But the Resellers!!!" What about them? You cant own more than one private and one FC per world now, so if you already own a house, by how the rules look, your SoL. You cant buy a new one. Even if you can, ok so you own a second one. Derp, sucks but Resellers arent going to buy up that many houses as FC houses. And you want to know how you screw resellers who want to make fake FCs on the housing market? By stalling when individuals can buy houses, making it so theres PLENTY of other land to buy so that resellers are fighting in a market with to much supply. Yeah, tis not going to be widespread abuse on the whole reseller point. Good luck trying to sell a Primo FC house when there are 143 other plots around, and you can only buy 1 FC house and 1 Personal house at a time per server.

So, is this the worst thing ever? No. Are they likely to continue adding housing to the game? Yes. Should it be easier now to get a house this time around with new rules in place? Yes. Are you gonna have to really try for it still? Sure. Are you going to get exactly the house you want in Shirogane? Maybe.

But seriously though, please stop acting like this is the worst thing ever and does nothing to help. It may not be the most ideal of solutions currently, but you better be happy its something. Cause the alternative is SE just saying "Screw it, I dont care about your housing needs" and just ignoring you guys.